Michelle Kwan, you suck. What's up with taking a spot on the Olympic team and not having enough balls to skate it out - even if you didn't feel good enough to win the gold, for once. You bought yourself more time in hopes you could heal before you had to take the stage again (and choke), but in reality you couldn't pull it together. I give you a big wag o' the finger for that one.
On a parallel note, the ONLY reason for watching figure skating is to see if someone catches a toe spike and takes a digger into the boards. Seriously. Have you ever seen this happen? It's unbelievable, and they should make a dvd of the best falls (like the best hockey fights) set to something from U2 or Greenday, of course. That's my Olympic dream.
nice links on your post, stinkeye. i agree. there's something oddly satisfying about watching figure skaters clam their petite bodies against the huge, red "smart Ones" billboard on the side of the ice rink.
Posted by: crazyvirgo | February 14, 2006 at 03:56 PM
Damn fine post, but I want something on Bode Miller and how this got go more airtime on 60 minutes than WMD's but apparently can't keep it together to medal in the events he is supposedly the best in, but what do I know, he is probably just drunk like Cheney hunting quial.
Posted by: D-town | February 14, 2006 at 11:29 PM
If I understand correctly, Michelle Kwan's bid for a spot on the Olympic team without competing in the qualifiers allowed the US to have three spots instead of two. So in a way, it wasn't a bad move for the USOC to throw her name in even if she couldn't get her act together and compete. And truly, her injury had to be pretty bad to give up her very last shot at competing. Must suck to be washed up at 25.
On another note, did you catch the replay of the Russian pair's fall from a few years ago? We rewound it about five times - he dropped her on her head!
Posted by: Jennifer Whetzel | February 15, 2006 at 10:54 AM